Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Texas Faith; What would you like to hear Obama and Romney say in their convention speeches?

From January
2008 through March 2009, I followed Obama’s speeches, indeed, I wrote about him
in advance and he spoke similar words. He is a pluralist, an inclusivist who
respects the given space of every human being that God has placed on the earth.
More about him and 40 articles I have written about him are linked
below.

He is going to
speak at the convention and I am going to write a mock speech and hoping his
speech would have many elements from my speech. I will write a full speech
hoping it would be similar to his real speech, as it has been in the past. Here
is a sample at Dallas Morning News in today’s Texas faith
column.

Texas Faith:
What would you like to hear Obama and Romney say in their convention
speeches?

MIKE
GHOUSE, President, Foundation for Pluralism, Dallas

I
hope President Obama delivers this speech to the
nation.

Every
day, I think about you, the 43 Million of my fellow Americans, who are patiently
enduring the pain of placing food on your tables, and the sacrifices you are
making daily to take care of your families.

As
a society we have failed you in your pursuit of happiness, we have failed to
create an aggressive environment where you can find means of earning a
livelihood, and the fulfillment of a sense of responsibility to your family.

I
am deeply troubled by it, like millions of you, I was not born with a silver
spoon, and I understand your feelings. I am also thankful to the almighty for
giving you the humility, forbearance and courage to believe in America. There is
always the light at the end of the tunnel, that is indeed the commonality of our
faiths, and that is what gets us going forward.

As
a nation, we have two priorities; your job and the well being of you and your
family.

We
have a severe budget deficit, and we need funds to provide temporary relief to
fellow Americans to take care of their families until there is a source of
income for them. I will not let you down, and let you suffer more than what you
already have. I will fight with the congress not to cut benefits to
you.

By the way, Republicans are not wrong at all in reigning on
spending, let me correct this notion, it is just not the Republicans, but every
Democrat and every American believes in that, and you as an individual and a
family lives within your means. Shouldn’t we?

We
are all in this mess together, and as Americans we have a moral responsibility
to take care of each other with our basic needs, everyone has to survive, not
just the fittest ones with safe havens.

We have to raise funds or borrow
it to survive until things get better. The short term solution is to ask every
able American to continue to contribute in creating jobs, but also pay the same
percent of taxes as every American does, whether your income is moderate or
beyond imagination.

This
paragraph is an add on, and not in the Morning News; If you are making $48,000 a
year, more than likely you will end up paying $9,600.00 with 20% net tax rate,
what if you pay $6,720 at 14% rate, would the additional $2,880 help you pay the
bills? Forget the luxury, will it help you “survive” and take care of your
family? You pay your taxes generously. If you make $23 Million a year, and if
you pay like everyone else, you will contribute a fair share to the economy and
we can pull it through equitably with the shared
pain.

We
need to be a healthy nation to sustain productivity, investing in your health
through the health care reforms is the right thing to do, so you can focus on
productivity rather than spend time worrying about how to take care of your
loved ones.

We
can stabilize our economy without repealing the good things working for your
future, and as your president, I want to leave you prosperous, just like
President Clinton did. Here are my specific plans and hurdles I face for the
next four years and I need your vote of confidence for four more
years.

Texas
faith is
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MORE ABOUT OBAMA - MY
PERSPECTIVESAt 10:00 PM on Wednesday,
January 3, 2008, history was made. Democratic candidate Barak Obama, an African
American was declared winner of the Iowa caucus for the Democratic Party.
January 3, 2008 will be written as a golden day in the civic History of
America. 97% of the nearly 3 Million Iowans are rural conservative white folks.
On this day, they have fulfilled a larger dream for the world by choosing Obama
in Iowa caucuses; it was a major leap in the annals of human civilization, where
color of the Person or ethnicity did not matter. What he can do for the country
mattered.Since then I have written
nearly 40 articles about him, have cheered for him, criticized him and held two
rallies and voted for him in 2008. He has disappointed us, and to be fair, it
could have been worse with McCain going to another war in Libya, Egypt and
elsewhere to show off our might, but destroy America from within. What good is
the war, when it weakens the average American family with a loss of job, home
and his or her savings? Obama had his domestic priorities screwed up. I did not
want to vote for him this term, even though I liked
him.I was looking for a
candidate among fellow Republicans; I was banking on Romney, the only
non-extremist candidates among the few left, he looked good amidst them, but
when he added Paul Ryan to his ticket, I waited with disappointment for some
good statements and held out till Saturday, August 25, 2012 in vain. But when I
saw the disgusting dishonest film about Obama on Saturday, I realized between
two evils, my country is better off with lesser evil;
Obama.